nice review, enjoyed the read.

Game of the motherfucking year

I like the the fact you took your time playing the game before submitting the review unlike some other reviewers.

The bit about the Euphoria tech is pretty cool to know what's running things.

Now to wait for Zero Punctuation review

Best review yet, didn't blindly hype it to a perfect game. Playing the PS3 version, the frame rate is nothing to write home about which I guess is understandable considering how much is going on a one time. Heh I was driving on a river-side walk way with chairs and water fountains while being chased by 4 stars my frame rate was below 10 I would say.

also needs a lobby system for MP.

yawn... I can tell a fellow uni student. You clearly have the ability to use lots of words to get a little across. But no one is marking this assignment

Actually, I'm not a uni student

5-0 his face

figjam: yawn... I can tell a fellow uni student. You clearly have the ability to use lots of words to get a little across. But no one is marking this assignment

more like man-assjam

Good review. I appreciate the time and depth put into it, particularly your comments about the multiplayer that are mysteriously absent from all those perfect 10 reviews!

Personally I'd award the game a 9.5 with my major issues being the terrible online lobby system and matchmaking, which makes Halo 3 look like a God; an entertaining but terribly cliched story; and a lack of true gameplay innovation.

Characterisation, attention to detail, Euphoria, the soundtrack and the vast multiplayer modes are the biggest positives.

*points to the do not feed the trolls sign*

Nice read steve. Although I don't totally agree that the lack of a boundary-pushing dynamic game world takes much away, I definitely agree with GTA4 not being a 'perfect game' despite those many rushed 100% scores.

There was plenty of things that I didn't like while playing through the singleplayer, not all of them technical. The storylines and the characters for instance didn't do a thing for me this time around, while I still have fond memories of the likes of Lance Vance, Donald Love and Phil Cassidy.

The thing about these games is that they just offer so much that it's a massive ask to polish every single aspect. But because they offer so much you can almost ignore the imperfections because you're way too busy with all the parts that absolutely rock.

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I found it interesting that you basically pointed out in your last sentence that GTA IV was pretty much as dynamic as a game can get at the moment, yet in "Things We Didn't Like" say "Still not nearly as definitively dynamic as this style of game should be".

Still, overall good review.

Great review, but you misspelled 'testicle' in the 26th paragraph.

Nice review, yet again steve.

Since there's no comments section for it, I'd like to point out that as a kid, I played 50cc ALL THE TIME.


and I still found it hard sometimes. :(

Great review and as others have said, well done for playing through the game BEFORE submitting it. It was worth the wait.

If I didn't already own the game, your review would have made me grab it. :)

It was a good review, albeit a little verbose. Many points were repeated ad nauseum.

It was a good review, albeit a little verbose. Many points were repeated ad nauseum.

I've spent just under 20 hours playing GTA IV, and quite frankly I'm too bored to even finish it. It's really not much more than the GTA we all came to love in 2001 with the third in the series. I played GTA 3 for months on end, sinking in hours upon hours every day, but I simply can't see that happening with this incarnation. Sure, IV sports better graphics and more in-world distractions... but those distractions couldn't fool me into wasting time with them (ie; the friendship status system).

I'm with the reviewer; clearly this is a great game, but hardly worth the "best game ever" hype. I was happy to revisit on April 29th, but it's just too much of the same, and I would rather go play something fresh and hang out for the next title in the series that will actually revolutionise the franchise once more, like its predecessor did.

Bring on 2011 and the next generation of console hardware I guess, because clearly the power to do that isn't here yet.